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Christmas Eve meal?
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MummyYummy
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Hi everyone,
Just after some inspiration for a Christmas Eve meal? There will be 8 people in total.
Last year I did a buffet but I got so fed up of cooking/preparing all the individual bits - this year I want something easy!
So far I've thought of chilli con carne and jacket potatoes or chicken tortilla wraps and wedges.
Any other ideas welcomed, including desserts
Jo xx
Just after some inspiration for a Christmas Eve meal? There will be 8 people in total.
Last year I did a buffet but I got so fed up of cooking/preparing all the individual bits - this year I want something easy!
So far I've thought of chilli con carne and jacket potatoes or chicken tortilla wraps and wedges.
Any other ideas welcomed, including desserts
Jo xx
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How about something like Lasagne and Garlic Bread with salad or maybe a pasta bake of some kind?
Both could be made before hand and frozen.
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We always normally do a veggie cawl on Christmas eve (basically home made chunky vegetable soup). It normally contains potato, onions, leeks and carrots, and prefereably homemade stock. It's nice and fresh before all the naughty chocoalte and stuff we eat from Christmas day! Normally have fresh crusty bread with it, and about an hour before we also dabble in a bit of mulled cidar!
But regardless, definitely go with the big pot/dish idea!
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We always have take away on Christmas Eve! After all the cooking and baking I do all day, I don't want to cook dinner lol. I would do something like cannelloni, lasagne, chilli, enchiladas, make it all up in advance and freeze it. I would also make garlic bread and keep that in the freezer too, then just serve it with salad.
Desserts - perhaps a chocolate mousse, it could be made up in the morning, or a cheesecake made the night before? Chocolate brownies could be made a couple of days before and then served with ice cream.Slimming World - 3 stone 8 1/2lbs in 7 months and now at target :j0 -
We have a takeaway .
But when i lived at home my mum always did us steak with chunky oven chips or wedges OR Lasgane with salad (Lasagne can before cooked and frozen too as LoopyLinz suggested).Member of Thrifty Gifty ~ Making money for Christmas 2010:£2 Savers club member no 40 ~ £54Amazon Vouchers BingoPort ~ £10Dooyoo Challenge Jan ~ £24.07 / £20.00 Yippee over target :j0 -
My mother in law always makes soup on Christmas eve because of all the cooking on Christma day, think I will adopt that tradition too. I might even freeze it in advance and then reheat on Christmas eve. My family like toasted cheese sandwiches with it too.“A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.” - Dave Ramsey0
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We always have take away too, specifically KFC even though we never eat it the rest of the year! It's for the same reason, once Mum has got the house and kitchen all ready she doesn't want it messing up again. My boyfriend thinks the KFC thing is hilarious!0
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Thanks for all the replies!
I think I'll definately stick to the "one pot" type of dish. I was thinking of jacket potatoes because my one sister is REALLY fussy, that way I can grate some cheese, cook some baked beans and then she's happy too!
Dessert so far is a toss up between apple crumble or a banoffee pie. I may do both though :rotfl:
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We always have take away too, specifically KFC even though we never eat it the rest of the year! It's for the same reason, once Mum has got the house and kitchen all ready she doesn't want it messing up again. My boyfriend thinks the KFC thing is hilarious!
:rotfl: Dont laugh Thats why we have a takeaway (and it is usually KFC too). By Xmas eve lunch time i like the house all tidy too and dont like to mess the kitchen up by cooking in it xmas eve tea time
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We always have take away on Christmas Eve! After all the cooking and baking I do all day, I don't want to cook dinner lol.
Same here!! (Chinese usually) All that last min shopping, wrapping, cleaning etc - I would hate to have to cook a big meal for people.
Although if I had to, I would start off with a pot of home made soup, nice and easy.
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Indian takeaway here on xmas eve!0
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